Code 3: Life. Reinvented.
I’m AJ Jones. Twice, a massive widowmaker heart attack nearly ended my life. Twice, I walked away with more than just a second chance. And twice I had to rethink everything. After a 20+ year career with firms like Schwab, BlackRock, and Wells Fargo, my cardiologist told me to retire. Instead, I doubled down on a new mission: to help people stop living on autopilot and start redefining what’s possible. Or put another way, with all due respect to my cardiologist I have unfinished business. Code 3: Life. Reinvented. is not another career podcast. It’s a wake-up call. Each episod...
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Ep 27: Midlife Transition Isn’t a Crisis… It’s a Wake-Up Call (Career Pivot, Purpose & Reinvention)
<p>Somewhere in the middle of a successful life…a quiet question shows up: Is this really it?</p> <p>You did everything right. Built the career. Earned the title. Created a life that—on paper—looks like success.</p> <p>So why does it feel… off?</p> <p>In this episode of Code 3: Life Reinvented, I sit down with author Lorie Kleiner Eckert (Chai on Life) to talk about what really happens in a midlife transition—when success stops feeling like success.</p> <p>This isn’t about blowing up your life. It’s about telling yourself the truth.</p> <p> What We...
Ep. 26: Numb Success: When a Good Life Stops Feeling Like Yours
<p>What happens when your life looks successful… but doesn’t feel like it?</p> <p>In this solo episode, I explore a state I’ve come to call Numb Success — when you’ve built a life that works on paper, but something inside feels off.</p> <p>This isn’t burnout. It’s not failure.<br> It’s quieter than that.</p> <p>It’s the slow drift that happens when you start prioritizing what you should do over what actually feels true.</p> <p>In this episode, I share a passage from my upcoming book, Powered by Authenticity, and reflect on how...
Ep. 25: From Wall Street to Wellness: How High Achievers Rebuild Health, Purpose & Fulfillment
<p>What if the life you built for success is quietly costing you your health, energy, and fulfillment?</p> <p>In this episode of Code 3: Life Reinvented, I sit down with Clarissa Louis—former asset management executive turned wellness entrepreneur—to explore what happens when high achievers realize that financial success alone isn’t enough.</p> <p>After years in high-performance environments at firms like BlackRock and Schwab, Clarissa made a bold pivot into building The Iron Mat, a wellness platform focused on helping driven professionals reconnect with their bodies, mindset, and purpose.</p> <p>We unpack:</p> The critical differ...
Ep. 24: The Cost of Staying on Autopilot
<p>Somewhere in the middle of a perfectly successful life… a quiet question starts to creep in: Is this really it?</p> <p>I know that question well because I ignored it for years.</p> <p>In this solo episode of Code 3: Life. Reinvented., I’m diving into something that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough: the cost of staying on autopilot.</p> <p>Because autopilot isn’t failure.<br> It’s what happens when everything is working. You’ve built the career. You’ve created the life. From the outside, it looks like you’re winning.</p> <p>But inside… some...
Ep. 23: The Life Matt Hunt Chose
<p>This episode of Code 3: Life .Reinvented. is unlike any I’ve recorded.</p> <p>When I first met Matt Hunt, I was instantly drawn in by his story — a former banker who walked away from a stable, successful career to pursue something most people would never consider: diving offshore for prehistoric Megalodon teeth and building a life around it.</p> <p>What started as curiosity quickly became something deeper. Matt wasn’t just chasing adventure, he was answering a calling. One that had been with him since he was a kid watching his father dive. One that never fully went a...
Ep. 22: From Fired to Inspired: How Rock Bottom Sparked a 1,300-Employee Mission
<p>In this episode of Code 3: Life Reinvented, I sit down with Merry Korn, whose story is a powerful reminder that sometimes our greatest breakthroughs begin with our lowest moments.</p> <p>Merry’s “Code 3 moment” came when she was suddenly fired from a job she had held for just two months. As a single mother with two kids preparing for college, she woke up one morning with no income, very little savings, and no idea how she was going to move forward. What followed wasn’t a perfectly mapped-out plan — it was a series of bold steps fueled by determinat...
Ep. 21: What Is Alignment? Authentic Truth, Ambition & the Hidden Cost of Success
<p>What is alignment? And why do so many high achievers struggle to find it?</p> <p>In this solo episode of Code 3: Life Reinvented, I break down what alignment really means — and what it doesn’t.</p> <p>Alignment isn’t about quitting your job.<br> It isn’t about blowing up your life.<br> And it’s not about abandoning ambition.</p> <p>It’s about removing internal conflict.</p> <p>I share my framework around authentic truth, ambition, and action, and explain how misalignment happens when those forces fall into conflict instead of concert.</p> <p>In this episode...
Ep. 20. Burned-Out ER Doctor to Entrepreneur: Reinventing Your Identity After Medicine
<p>Emergency medicine. Physician burnout. Career reinvention. Identity shift.</p> <p>In this episode of Code 3: Life Reinvented, I sit down with Dr. Maureen “Dr. Moe” Gibbons, a former ER doctor who left emergency medicine after years in a Level II trauma center — not because she hated it, but because she didn’t realize how much it was costing her.</p> <p>After being pushed out of her primary ER role, Dr. Moe faced an identity crisis many high achievers experience: Who am I if I’m no longer my title?</p> <p>Together, Dr. Mo and I explore:</p> <p>Physicia...
Ep 19: When Success Stops Working
<p>What happens when your life looks successful on paper… but feels flat on the inside?</p> <p>In this solo episode, I explore a confusing and deeply common experience among high achievers: the moment when success keeps growing, but meaning quietly fades.</p> <p>I talk about the paradox of “numb success” — how external wins can slowly pull us away from our inner truth, relationships, and sense of being alive. When achievement becomes our identity, the same momentum that once fueled our growth can start to feel like a trap.</p> <p>In this episode, I break down the invisibl...
Ep. 18: Alignment Isn’t Woo — It’s Biology (with Dr. Birgit Rauchbauer)
<p>In this episode, I’m joined by someone who was my very first guest on Code 3 — Dr. Birgit Rauchbauer — and I’m excited to share a big announcement: she’s officially joining MORE as our Head of Research.</p> <p>Together, we dig into the question that’s been driving my work: What actually happens when you live and work in alignment — and what does the science say about it? We break down what people get wrong about purpose (hint: it doesn’t have to be heroic), how I define alignment as when your authentic truth, ambition, and actions are in harmony...
